Quick individual post for two SL events coming up next week – the Nature Debate: Science and the Financial Crisis on Monday and The Source Event on Friday.

Both are interesting in their own right and especially interesting for me as we will be continuing trialling new things in Second Life by charging an entry fee for attendees.

The Source Event in particular is interesting; it’s a full day of video streamed talks on various aspects of careers for early-stage scientists and as well as inviting individual attendees, we are also selling tickets to institutions who would like to show the video on a big screen in a lecture theatre. So far this has been pretty successful – contact me if you’ve got a group and would like to know more.

The Nature Debate is different – £5 is a trivial sum by anyone’s standards, and half the price of the RL event, so I think this will be a pretty good test of whether people see a real value in virtually attending events. Sadly I’m not on commission, but I should add that to my knowledge, the video won’t be available afterwards, so miss it, miss out!

Anyway, you can sign up for The Source Event or The Nature Debate on their websites. Will report back on how they did.